Anomalies and Curiosities of MedicineGeorge M. Gould
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
George M. Gould
Essays
Book language: English
890 pages
An encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary medical cases and abnormalities in medicine and surgery, compiled from medical literature and arranged for reference. George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle gather historical curiosities of the human body, showing how medicine has recorded the unusual. It appeals to listeners interested in medical history and strange cases.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
ANOMALIES and CURIOSITIES of
MEDICINE
Being
an
encyclopedic
collection
of
rare
and
extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed. by
GEORGE M. GOULD, A.M., M.D. and
WALTER L. PYLE, A.M., M.D.
PREFATORY AND INTRODUCTORY.
Since the time when man's mind first busied itself with subjects beyond his own self-preservation and the satisfaction of his bodily appetites, the anomalous and curious have been of exceptional and persistent fascination to him; and especially is this true of the construction and functions of the human body. Possibly, indeed, it was the anomalous that was largely instrumental in arousing in the savage the attention, thought, and investigation that were finally to develop into the body of organized truth which we now call Science. As by the aid of collected experience and careful inference we today endeavor to pass our vision into the dim twilight whence has emerged our civilization, we find abundant hint and even evidence of this truth. To the highest type of
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